Richard C. Sime

World War II
Service #1303401
Unit7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army
Entered Service From South Dakota
Date of DeathAugust 18 1944
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
Bronze Star and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Notes
2LT Sime's name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Rhone American Cemetery. His remains were recovered, and identified in 1965 and interred in the Black Hills Cemetery, Ft. Meade, South Dakota.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.